George Warren (East India Company officer)


George Warren was a British General who was a major figure in the Afghan and Indian wars of the early 19th century.

Biography

George Warren was born in Topsham, Devon about 1801. He joined the Honourable East India Company's 1st Bengal European Regiment and was stationed in India. On 4 March 1823, Lieutenant Warren arrived in Madras aboard. On 18 January 1826, he took part in the Storming of the Jungeena Gate at Bhurtpore. On 16 March 1839, as a Brigadier, he described the soldiers' appearance during the passage of the Bolan Pass as
On 17 September of the same year, he was awarded the Order of the Dooranee Empire, 3rd class. He progressed quickly to the rank of General and remained in India until the early 1860s. He retired to the United Kingdom, firstly to Sudley Lodge, South Bersted, Sussex, and then to Portsea, Portsmouth and Southsea, where he died.
His medals from the 1839 campaign are in the Watson Medal Collection, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Family

On 15 August 1840 at Calcutta Cathedral, India, Lt-Col George Warren married Isabella Barry Fitzgerald, the daughter of William Fitzgerald of Dublin, and had issue:
  1. William Henry Oakes Warren
  2. Isabella Palmer Warren
  3. Emily Grace Warren, who married Roger Granville Pulteney Eliot in 1871
  4. Frederick Penrose Warren who married Maria Goodfellow 13 October 1888, Bexhill, Sussex, England
  5. Edward Harrington Warren, who married Eliza Salter Talbot in 1880, Portsea Island
  6. Walter Gilbert Warren
  7. Arthur Septimus Warren, who married Lily Edith Tindall 1891, Chorlton, Lancs
  8. Florence Temple Warren, who married Arthur Nathaniel Davis in 1883
  9. Harriette Annie Sloper Warren, who married Harry Bingham Thomas on 8 January 1885 at St John's Church, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
On 22 June 1884, at his home in 1 Brandon Terrace, Southsea, Hampshire, Warren died, aged 83.